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Why visit Metahāra
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About Metahāra
Metehara (Amharic: መተሐራ, Oromo: Mataharaa) is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the East Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of 08°54′N 39°55′E with an elevation of 947 meters above sea level.
From the Wikipedia article Metehara (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Visitors to the area in the first decades of the 20th century frequently described the area as land between the Karrayyu Oromo, Afar, Somali Dir clans (Issa and Gadabuursi) and Amhara. Somali settlers from the Issa and Gadabuursi migrated to this region towards the end of the era of Emperor Menelik II. Later their numbers increased as relatives and kinsmen took permanent settlement there. On the eve of the Italian invasion, a German named Neitzel had been granted a concession to cultivate cotton and coffee. Despite that, few people lived in the area until the arrival of the Dutch corporation Handelsvereeningung Amsterdam (HVA), which established a factory to process sugar at Metehara, after it had been expelled from Indonesia in 1954.
In 1970, the Karrayyu Oromo staged an armed demonstration in Metehara which destroyed fences and buildings at the HVA plantation. The Derg announced 3 February 1975 that the sugar plantation, including the Dutch investments, would be fully nationalized.
During the 2002 drought, a Karrayyu Oromo leader was killed in Metehara, which increased tensions between the Karrayyu Oromo and Afar peoples. As a result the Afar, who traded at the Tuesday market, did not go to the market during that drought.
From the History section of Metehara on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Metahāra
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Getting there and nearby towns
- Āwash 29 km east, about 29 min by car
- Welench’ītī 59 km southwest, about 59 min by car
- Gelemso 67 km east, about 1 h by car
- Sīrē 80 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Nazrēt 81 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Sheno 83 km northwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Wenjī 86 km southwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
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Photo credits
- 1983 - panoramio - z-pinch (8), z-pinch, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ISS053-E-335215 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS018-E-25343 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS026-E-5144 - View of Ethiopia, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-333247 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- Nearby the lake Basaka (17146469262), Jean Rebiffé from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, CC BY 2.0
- Road in Lake Basaka, This image was produced by me, David Castor ( user:dcastor ). The pictures I submit to the Wikipedia Project are released to the public domain. This gives you the right to use them in any way you..., CC0
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